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April 27th, 2005 (April 27 2005) | Event | The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France. | |
April 27th, 1995 (April 27 1995) | Death | Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (born in 1921) | |
April 27th, 1975 (April 27 1975) | Birth | Rabih Abdullah, former National Football League player | |
April 27th, 1975 (April 27 1975) | Birth | Chris Carpenter, American baseball player | |
April 27th, 1975 (April 27 1975) | Birth | Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player | |
April 27th, 1965 (April 27 1965) | Death | Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (born in 1908) | Edward R. Murrow Quotes |
April 27th, 1945 (April 27 1945) | Event | World War II: Last German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland (the last day of World War II going on in Finland). | |
April 27th, 1945 (April 27 1945) | Event | World War II: The Volkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication. | |
April 27th, 1945 (April 27 1945) | Birth | August Wilson, American playwright (died in 2005) | |
April 27th, 1915 (April 27 1915) | Death | Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (born in 1872) | |
April 27th, 1865 (April 27 1865) | Event | The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state s land grant institution. | |
April 27th, 1865 (April 27 1865) | Event | The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison. | |
April 27th, 1805 (April 27 1805) | Event | First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines hymn). | |
April 27th, 1755 (April 27 1755) | Birth | Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (died in 1836) | |
April 27th, 1695 (April 27 1695) | Death | John Trenchard, English statesman (born in 1640) | |
April 27th, 1625 (April 27 1625) | Death | Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (born in 1553) | |
April 27th, 1605 (April 27 1605) | Death | Pope Leo XI (born in 1535) | |
April 27th, 1565 (April 27 1565) | Event | Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. | |
April 27th, 1495 (April 27 1495) | Birth | Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died in 1566) | |